Natasha Lomas
Natasha is a reporter for TechCrunch, joining September 2012, based out of London. She arrives after a stint reviewing smartphones for CNET UK and, prior to that, more than five years covering business technology for silicon.com (now folded into TechRepublic.com). At silicon she focused on mobile and wireless, telecoms and networking, and IT skills issues, and has also freelanced for organisations including the Guardian and the BBC. Natasha studied English at Cambridge University, and also holds an MA from Goldsmiths College, University of London.
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Comparison Engine Versus Launches Its First App To Grow Its 3.5M Monthly Uniques
Versus IO, a consumer electronics product comparison engine startup based out of Berlin that's attracted backing from Dave McClure’s 500 Startups (among others), has launched its first app as it seeks to continue growing its user-base. Read More
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Urban Transport App, Citymapper, Pulls In $10M, Led By Balderton, To Roll Into More Cities
Urban transport app Citymapper has just announced a new Series A funding round of $10 million, led by Balderton Capital. Connect Ventures (Bill Earner), Index Ventures (Robin Klein) and Greylock Partners (Laurel Bowden), also participated in the round, along with as a number of unnamed angels. The startup said it plans to use the new funding for launching in new cities, and expanding the… Read More
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Line Starts Letting Users Make And Sell Their Own Stickers On Its Messaging Platform
Mobile messaging platform Line, which is gunning for a billion registered users by 2015 and is also reportedly considering an IPO later this year, has added a new feature aimed at boosting engagement on its platform. The feature could also result in it pulling in more revenue via its secondary money-maker, sticker sales. Read More
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Me-Mover Step-Powered Stand-Up Bike Gets Funded On Kickstarter
Move over Segway, there's a new stand-up personal transporter in town. Or there will be come August when the first machines are scheduled to ship to Kickstarter backers. More than 200 users of the crowdfunding website have pledged funds to Me-Mover, a Danish project to rethink the bike as a stand-up exerciser on wheels. Read More
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Wayra U.K. Adds Six More Startups To Its 2014 Mentoring Program
Back in January the Telefonica-backed accelerator Academy, Wayra U.K., announced the intake for its 2014 accelerator program -- naming 13 startups that would be put through their paces during the nine-month mentoring program. Today it's topped up that number with six more startups which will be joining the existing teams in its London-based Academy in May. Read More
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Respondly Launches To Simplify Your Support Team’s Workflow For Emails And Tweets
The founder of Favstar, a tool that surfaces popular Twitter favourites, has launched a new startup with a Twitter focus -- bringing a customer support tool called Respondly out of private beta today. Its tagline best sums up what this b2b startup is aiming for: 'Team inbox for email & Twitter'. Read More
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BlackBerry Buys Stake In U.S. Healthcare IT Firm As It Shifts Focus To Niche Markets
BlackBerry has bought a minority stake in privately held U.S. healthcare IT firm NantHealth. The two companies told Reuters they are working together to develop a new smartphone tailored to the needs of the healthcare sector -- with a launch pegged for late 2014 or early 2015, according to Jim Mackey, BlackBerry's head of corporate development and strategic planning, speaking in an interview with… Read More
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Mixed Dimensions Raises ~$1M To Make 3D-Design Tools For The Masses
Mixed Dimensions (MXD), a Jordanian startup now relocated to Silicon Valley, is aiming to simplify the 3D design process by building browser-based 3D design tools designed for the mainstream and for touchscreen usage, along with a cloud platform for sharing and browsing 3D objects, and locating related 3D print services. Read More
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Freelancer.com Pays $3.2M To Buy Digital Marketing Marketplace, Warrior Forum
Job outsourcing marketplace Freelancer.com has put down a portion of the money it raised from its IPO last fall on buying Warrior Forum, a marketplace and forum for digital marketing professionals. Freelancer.com filed for an IPO last October, with the aim of raising ~$14.2 million — noting at the time that it intended to use the IPO funds for organic growth and also acquisition… Read More
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Lifesum Health Tracker App Gets $6.7M Series A To Outgrow Its Nordics Base
Health and fitness app Lifesum (formerly known as ShapeUp Club) which lets users track the food they eat and count calories, has closed a $6.7 million Series A funding round led by German multinational media company Bauer Media Group and SparkLabs Global Ventures. It's the Swedish startup's first external funding -- with the 21-strong startup bootstrapping its way to profitability, prior to… Read More
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Biometric Startup Quixter Demos Pay-By-Palm Tech
Quixter has built a biometric pay-by-palm technology system that's up and running at Lund University in Sweden. The idea is the brainchild of Fredrik Leifland, an engineering student at the university, who wanted to come up with a quicker system for making card payments. (And clearly didn't think much of NFC.) Read More
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Line Targets 1BN Users Of Its Messaging App By 2015
The ripples from Facebook’s $19BN purchase of messaging app WhatsApp continue to rock the app space, pushing more and more developers to build comms tools with a twist in the hopes of harvesting even a fraction of the traction and engagement that veteran player enjoyed. (Ultimately the size of the WhatsApp exit is the massive carrot here — while Viber’s recent sale to… Read More
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Rocket Internet’s Real-Estate Classifieds Platform, Lamudi, Bags $7M To Grow In Asia
Rocket Internet‘s real-estate classifieds platform, Lamudi, which operates in 21 markets in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America, has closed a $7 million funding round aimed at beefing up its operations in Asia. Currently Lamudi operates in five Asia markets — Myanmar, Indonesia, Philippines, Pakistan and Bangladesh — and it’s those markets the new funding will… Read More
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Phones Go Back To The Future
I'm no fan of LG's rear smartphone control keys -- but turns out the company had its finger on the pulse of looming hardware disruption when it ushered in those backside smartphone controls last summer, with the G2. The back of the smartphone is becoming a space to watch. Read More
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Zuta Labs Is Making An Inkjet Printer That Rolls Free
3D printers may be getting all the hype right now, but an Israeli hardware startup called Zuta Labs wants to inject some particles of excitement back into 2D printing -- by turning the standard 2D printer box into a mobile robot that rolls across paper free-style, dropping ink like a road-surface marker inks white lines. Read More
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Updated: Micro $299 3D Printer Passes $2M On Kickstarter In 3 Days
Update: The consumer-focused, low-cost Micro 3D printer that's currently raising money on Kickstarter to get its prototype to market, has pushed passed the $2 million mark in pledged crowdfunds -- just three days after the campaign kicked off. Read More
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Snupps Wants You To Organise And Share Your Real-Life Stuff On Its Virtual Shelves
London-based startup Snupps wants to appeal to the amateur collector in all of us. Whether your secret passion is hoarding fine wines or Pokemon figurines, it's built the virtual shelf space where you can catalogue your collection by uploading photos and details of your stuff. Read More
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TinkerBots Want To Make Modular Robotics Child’s Play
TinkerBots is a modular robotics building set with the aim of encouraging children to learn about electronics through play. The Berlin-based makers behind the project are seeking to raise $100,000 over the next 46 days via the Indiegogo crowdfunding platform to get their kits to market. Read More
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Google Releases First Developer Resources For Project Ara, Its Modular Smartphone
Google's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group has released a Module Developers Kit (MDK) for Project Ara, its forthcoming modular smartphone, providing reference implementations for various design features. Read More
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U.K. Healthcare E-booking Platform, Zesty, Adds Another $2M+ To Its Seed Funding
U.K. healthcare startup Zesty, which much like ZocDoc in the U.S. offers an online platform to locate and book healthcare appointments at short notice, has topped up its seed investment with more than $2 million in new funding coming from two new VC firms, TA Ventures and ABRT Fund. Read More
